Biography - D. M. Carter
Carter, D.M.: Wagon and Carriage business; Salem Township; born 8 November
1838, in Gallia County, Ohio; educated in the common schools. His father, George
Carter, was born in Gallia County, Ohio and died in Ohio at the age of
eighty-four. His mother, Phebe (Ripley) who also died in Ohio, was born in New
York; her father, Joshua Ripley, a Baptist minister, was a native of New York
State. George Carter's father, John, was born in Shenadoah Vale, Virginia, and
lived to the age of ninety-seven. On 8 December 1868, Mr. Carter married Miss
L.J. Boggs in Abingdon, Illinois; she was the daughter of Elliott and Elinor
(McCoy) Boggs, who came to Abingdon in 1864. Mrs. Carter was born in Nicholas
County, West Virginia on 20 October 1841. Both her parents are deceased; the
father died at the age of seventy; the mother at the age of eighty. Three
children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Carter: Etha B. born 18 September 1869; Myrta
L. born 16 July 1873, died 10 April 1894, and Earl M. born 23 June 1876. Etha B.
graduated at the Chicago Musical College; she married Dr. H.J. Hensley; Earl M.
is a graduate of the Illinois School of Dentistry at Chicago. Mr. Carter was a
soldier in the late Civil War, a sergeant in Company F, One Hundred and
forty-fourth Ohio Infantry. He worked for the government in building and
repairing ambulances and wagons until Lee's surrender. He is a member of the
G.A.R. in Yates City; has been a member of the Board of Aldermen several terms;
was manager of a co-operative store in Yates City for about ten years; U.S.
storekeeper at Peoria under Julius S. Starr for five years; and now holds the
office of Township Treasurer. In politics he is a republican.
Extracted from the 1899 History of Knox County, page 962.
